Plant-Strong Camping Tips

It’s been a bit since I’ve taken you on one of my Adventures with Ami. We’ve relocated to California and I’ve been busy coaching in our private 20,000+ member Seven-Day Rescue Facebook group. California is an incredible place! So much to explore from the beach to the mountains and everything in between. Last week, we camped in the Sequoia National Forest at the Quaking Aspen Campground.

Heading to the mountains for a camping trip doesn’t have to mean ditching your plant-strong plan. With a little pre-planning and creativity, you can build tasty meals that don’t require refrigeration and keep you fully fueled for your adventures. Whether you are hiking or simply enjoying being in the woods or on the beach, convenient plant-strong meals make camp life a lot easier.

MSR Alpine StowAway Pot – Perfect for boiling water or simmering oats, stew and more

The tools I use in camp

Then I pick some essentials from Harmony House Foods (order direct or find on Amazon.com). They have dehydrated and freeze dried ingredients – perfect for bowl building the Seven-Day Rescue way. You can buy items individually or in a sampler pack. I like the sampler packs because you get small packets of a variety of ingredients. I also use freeze dried fruit, oats, corn meal, Rip’s Big Bowl cereal, Bob’s Red Mill Seven-Grain Hot Cereal, salt-free spices, nutritional yeast and some walnuts.

Nine plant-strong meals for three days camping in the Sequoia National Forest

You can create your own meal ideas by adding dehydrated ingredients and spices to a zipper storage bag – I used quart sized bags here. You could use sandwich sized bags though. You could also make a large quantity of one type of meal and store in a different container if you don’t mind eating the same meal during your trip.

Here are my combinations for the meals shown above from top to bottom:

All of these meals can be made in one of two ways: add the dry ingredients to your fairshare mug or bowl and add boiling water, stir, cover and let sit for 10-15 minutes – or – add dry ingredients to the pot of boiling water, reduce heat and simmer for 5 -8 minutes, remove from heat, cover and let sit for 5 minutes. Then enjoy!

Get creative! Make your own combinations tailored to your likes and dislikes. Take a clamshell of fresh greens with you to add to your bowls if you are taking a cooler. If you are backpacking – the combined weight of these 9 meals was 2.8 pounds and fit into a gallon size zipper storage bag. Happy camping!

~Coach Ami

3 days worth of plant-strong meals

Making Cheezy Potatoes in the Sequoia National ForestCheezy Potatoes cooling in the pot